Mads Andenas is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention, and the Chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which reports to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly. He has held senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including as Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College London.